In today’s complex world, driving meaningful social and policy change requires more than incremental improvements—it demands systemic shifts. In this blog, I describe and reflect on my experience of drawing from a tool from Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation and applied the Four Keys for shifting systems to facilitate a strategy discussion with policy researchers from […]
In the rapidly changing landscape of international development, traditional, rigid approaches often fall short when dealing with complex and evolving environments. This is where adaptive development and systems shifting come into play, allowing practitioners to remain responsive and flexible in the face of uncertainty. A key method that supports this approach is strategy testing, a
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Yesterday, I had the opportunity to dive into an insightful podcast from the series Systems and Cybernetics on the New Books Network. The episode featured an interview with Pete Barbrook-Johnson and Alexandra (Alex) S. Penn, co-authors of the book Systems Mapping: How to Build and Use Causal Models of Systems
In 2005, I had been living for over two years, in Kampong Thom, central Cambodia. I was working on community development and local governance participation in local governance in a GTZ (now GIZ) rural development programme. I also worked on my PhD research on education decentralisation and community participation in school management, which I did
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Our paper A Case for a Systems Approach to EdTech
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A great article in The Guardian about the biggest river restoration project in Europe
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Wonderful illustration by Virpi Oinonen which made me think about the metaphor of missing the forest by focusing only on a tree
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As I continue to explore and learn about systems thinking and how to apply it to the research and development work I do, I found quite interesting the question that is posed in the introduction of a course I am doing: What does systems thinking mean to you?
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